Tools

All (Free) tools of the trade:

3D Development

• wings 3D : excellent 3d program.
• Manifold Lab : Boolean plugins for Wings 3D.

Image manipulation with layers

• The Gimp : Like Photoshop but freeware.
• Paint Dot Net : Simplified Gimp.

Fast batch image manipulation:

• Faststone Photo Resizer: Batch screenshot resizer.

Text editors

• Notepad++ : Best text editor for .plist files.
• Alleycode : Second best editor for .plist files.

Other Tools

• Python : Not the ship, but the program.
• Dat2Obj : Converts game files to files that Wings 3D can read.
• Obj2Dat : Converts Wings 3D files to game dat files.
• Other converters : a list of other converters (haven't used them yet).

Useful testing oxp's(

• OOCheat : read BB topic (creator Thargoid)
• Long Range Scanner : download (creator: Okti)